16 ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS in 



fummit of which, as I was informed by a gentleman who re- 

 fides in that neighbourhood, there are fimilar remains of a for- 

 tification, compofed of dry ftone, like thofe on Dun-Evan and 

 Dun-Jardel. Mr Williams mentions a fmall fortified hill near 

 Fort-Auguflus, called Tor-Dun, which is plainly difcernible 

 from Dun-Jardel. Dun-Jardel is diftinctly feen from Dun- 

 Sgrebin ; and from the fituation of the country, this laft is, in 

 all probability, feen from Craig-Phadrick. Craig-Phadrick is 

 plainly difcernible from Knockfarril, and Dun-Evan and Caftle- 

 Finlay (a fortified hill in the fame neighbourhood) from Craig- 

 Phadrick. Thus, there is a chain of feven fortified hills, com- 

 manding a very large tract of country, over which an alarm 

 could be communicated with the utmofl: celerity ; and I think 

 it is not improbable, that, upon a minute furvey of the moun- 

 tainous country, it would appear, that there have been, in fome 

 former period, chains of communication of this kind through 

 many of the regions in the northern parts of the ifland. 



Nor were fortified places of this kind peculiar to the north- 

 ern parts of Britain. The Honourable Daines Barrington, 

 in a memoir printed in volume vi. of the Archaeologia, 

 affirms, that there are many fuch ftructures of dry done upon 

 the tops of hills in Wales, and particularly in Merioneth- fhire. 

 In Di'Borlase's Hiflory of Cornwall, we are informed, that 

 there are the remains of fimilar ftructures in that country. 

 Some of thefe the author has defcribed under the name of Hill- 

 caftles. 



In Ireland, the remains of fuch fortifications on the tops of 

 hills, are yet much more frequent than in this country. 



Harris, in his republication of Sir James Ware's Anti- 

 quities of Ireland, in treating of what are called Danes raths or 

 Da?ies forts, in that country, defcribes precifely fuch fortifica- 

 tions or ftructures, as thofe on the fummits of the hills we have 

 mentioned, viz. conical mounts terminating in an oblong level 

 area, and furrounded with the remains of ftrong ramparts. 



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